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Jessica Alba Criticises Marvel Movies For Being 'Still Quite Caucasian'

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Published 16:21 22 Jul 2022 GMT+1

Jessica Alba Criticises Marvel Movies For Being 'Still Quite Caucasian'

Fantastic Four actor Jessica Alba believes that younger people should have more representation of themselves on screen

Anish Vij

Anish Vij

Jessica Alba has criticised Marvel movies for being 'still quite caucasian'.

The Fantastic Four actor, who is of Latino heritage, has previously spoke on the lack of diversity in Hollywood when she was coming up.

Despite acknowledging an improvement in recent years, in an interview with Glamour, the 45-year-old said: "It’s a business initiative for people now that they realise how much money they can make.

"It’s something they care about, which is fine. How they get there really doesn’t matter.

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"You’re like, 'Great. Now you realise there’s a whole group of folks that you just frankly left out of the conversation because you just didn’t even see them. They were there the whole time'."

Fantastic Four actor Jessica Alba believes that younger people should have more representation of themselves on screen.
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She added: "Even if you look at the Marvel movies – that’s the biggest driver of fantasy and what’s happening right now in entertainment, because it’s sort of the family thing – it’s still quite Caucasian."

Alba who was once part of the Marvel universe, concluded: "I would say I was one of the few back in the day... And it was before Marvel was sold to Disney... but it’s still quite… more of the same."

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UNILAD have contacted Disney for comment.

The actor also spoke on gender equality in the movie industry, for which she remains frustrated with.

She said: "It’s the same in business and in Hollywood – if you have people in charge who aren’t really reflective of the audience you’re appealing to, they only know what they know.

"They only know what they like. And so they’re going to gravitate towards more of the same.

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"And 50 percent of the population, we’re women. And we like action movies, and we like superheroes, and we like romantic comedies, and we like dramas and horror, and all of that.

"But if 90 percent of the people in charge don’t look like us, they’re just going to continue to do the same."

The actor also spoke on gender equality in the movie industry, for which she remains frustrated with.
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Alba added: "The system just has to be more diverse. Especially when 60 percent of people entering the workforce are women.

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"But then when you get to executive level and C-suite, VP and above, it really diminishes to [around] 14 percent, 15 percent. So you’re like, ‘What the hell happened? We started at 60 percent and then now we’re at 15 percent, 14 percent? What’s going on?'

"I would say a lot of it has to do with women’s health and support around our health and our bodies. We’re complex and we need to be treated with care.

"And we can’t sort of be demeaned and shamed for having complex bodies that actually create life.”

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Featured Image Credit: Alamy/Disney

Topics: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney, Celebrity, Film and TV

Anish Vij
Anish Vij

Anish has an MA in Multimedia Journalism and is passionate about delivering sarcastic/mildly amusing content. After studying business at undergrad, Anish realised that he’d much prefer getting paid to rant about a topic, rather than to find a solution to it. Apart from that, he loves the ‘Four F’s’, as he calls it - family, friends, football and food. Email: [email protected]

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